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THE SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913.INTERESTING NEWS FRESH FROM BOOKLANDBOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTSSBTHE MEN WHO PUBLISHBOOKS-GEORGE H. MIFFLINReflects Feeling and Spirit Which CharacterizeHouse of Houghton Mifflin Company.Tribute to H. 0. Houghton's Printing Ideals. WhoFounded House Sixty Years Ago.On This Foundation Has Been Built List of NamesWith View to Permanent Value.1HAVI2 been unknl tort-Kilcrs of 'I'm: si srelatliiK to my ownconnection with our liou?owrite for thea few wordsexperlpni'ti Init nil eotieern"K tlie lelatloim of lluiiRlitoii MifflinCuinpany to tlio puMlo iiml to Kvncriilliiilillshlm: IntenntH. 1 mipio.ich mieli iiifiiufst with ruluutanee, for 1 Und It hard. iicrsimilu nibi-lf th.it Kiicli a nUti-nuntahiiIiI li.iv.i imy lnti'icst exvi'it ui It.'" ."'V' vciuwon-.Wll Maud the t-st of time........ .......... vo.iuu.1), iiu in MiHuuoiiaiii.. u win., then, as u ntlnter M.ine flxty nri , .1' ' 1'm)',evcr' '" to av.ill my ,i ,., i.ki. that Mr. Ilnuchton laid1 if of tin- 1 mt.illnti, im It en.tliti-s mi- tuul,.. luim,!,,!!.,,,., .if ..or I...I.T It.....iu in. ui i.'i iiemoii ii ir it tin 10 imjiniiiuer or tlie nouso, Hour. Oscarlluiialilon. To him In duo. primarily andiliiolly. Avlmtovor kiiccocs Ii.ii been atin nil. IIli native honi'sty, I1I1 hlRhh-.iN and I1I1 unw oivhiK tonaclty andfcti-.idfaxtneNH of purpoMi- were an Insplra1.1111 In tho o.irly days, and etmtlmie toilm day for many of our Muff to P.. ai 'tent liitliiemc. 1 count It anuink- thojiiont fortun.ito of my ucileiieeM that my't.ullrst buslm fsi tr.ilnlnu brutiKht me Into!ii h Intimate r latlonn with Mr. lluuL-litun.I'rlmarlly a prlntor, bid first mii-cosm waf. lined In that e.ii,telt. . I can tocall to.i as If It wero jeMerd.iy the Joy thatt.ilnij to 1110 ax 11 youthful luok loorIIItho lato 'Ol's and early '60k lis I hailedf'no books which appeared with tliu maxloimprint 'I'rllited at the Riverside Press."ltoally well printed books In those dayswore to rare, and tho book alluded toappeared In such notable contrast to otherhooka of that period, that the finishedproduct was alt the more Martllni. Therewas a sudden and complete harmony Informat, paper. tps ami prosgwmk, ntidfor this simple reason, that Mr. HoURhtniialmost alone 11 muni; the prlnteis of bisday was ctu.l;. Im: piufoiindly the bestmasters of luintltis and iippl tin; theirunderlying principles with unerring tasteto a .arlot of IhiiiUs which some inthusiastlc imbllxlier of that time had entrustedto his care. Since that rally day suchpeoKirss has lieen mailt' in this country,i.nd so many mastei priuteiH, like DoVlntie and u'.hcis, have aeaicd on thesi one that any such ulntlve superiorly:n I011K tinee dlsappciitid. It tiill remains true, however, that with all Its'tiiperfeetlnns the IliverMile I'riss hneadfastly tiled to maintain the Idealstaised by its founder. To-day there is nfien to the vision of the outsider withthe sani" enthusiasm orr typs paper, i Ind'.rt'ei 1 nt results ( Skohoe 1 1. Miri'i.ts.f iiinat, AiO , of whiih most readers know 1 i l'.uk sticet, ltoston.a "battle between loversand the conventionsIt lb a tiiaiactcristlc story that 11, IJ.Wells nltords ill "Tile I'.isslonalcI riclids" (Hal per and I'.lothei.s). Thel ader Will not doubt leeuldlllK thesef lends that Mary was lovely or thatboth she and tfttattou were qualltied touiM'stlR.itc lire lii an adventurous andii.tiiculitu manner. Wc ictiiarkeilMtulton'.s passltiR observations tiiolil:is encountci.s with philosophy at 0loid. It was. he sah. nut so muchtliouglit that be came to deal withlh.-io as it was a mistranslation andvulgarization of ancient and alien exorcises in thlnkim:. lie adds. "Them Isno tucli eifii tivc i-eium onanist philosophy as the scholarly decoction of adtad phllosuphrt. The philosophicalteaching of oxford al the ml ot thelast century was not so much tcachliiRas a protective Inoculation. Tile stultwas administered with a mysterious.Kildillg of liteek and levcleticc; oldllegel'u monstrous web was the ultimate modernity, and I'lato, that Intellectual journalist artiht. that brlRht.r.stlcss eeiiinentall.st In Ideas, wasas it were the Rod of wisdom, only alittle loss omniscient (and on the wholeiion; of 11 scholar and 11 Rentlemau)t i.in tho Rod of fact." Stratton balked..nil fell back upon the "empire" in hist r.t uttempts to unify his life. 11c woulds rve the empire.He served it in the South African waralter Mary had married Justin, the'iiiaRtiate." Thete Is slialp description, philosophical and moral reflectionI 1 Stratum's review of the war. Het .ourIu of the dead one nlRlit, iiinoin;mem tho wretched natives touiul hihhke dogs and MuiiR aside, rottenlyaniazid, ilecayltiK In Inllnito IndlRnity.If all this pain, waste, violence, iuiruis 1was e.s.sontiai 10 111c, way uai nis spun.rise URalnst It'.' What was wronR with. ...... ..-.-...i. ...in.him? No soldier In a piopcr state ofmind ever thinks of the dead. Was hea "soft"? A dreadful thitiKWilell Htreat empire had to rely uponsoldiers. Was civilization brecdlm;11tvpo too tender to ko on livliiR'.' Thequestion Is not mibwered. Tho Inquirer passed into other moods.The white man's burden, Mr. Chamberlain's idea of a tariff a Rre.it manysuch matters were considered by Strattun nnd they uro In the story. TheHermans have a tariff. We llnd Strattmi'H father. 11 clergyman who had n-adDarwin and Huxley, confronting thisfact. "Mjj' father shut one eye and regarded the color of his port iiRalnst tliowanliiR liRht. 'Let 'em.' he said.Taney! quotlnR tho nermann! WhenI waa a boy there weren't any Cierualis. They caino up after '70. Stateera ft from florinanv! And statesmenfrom HirnuiiRliatn! Herman silver and 1electroplated empties.'" Tho yotlllRer,'ttrattoii looked out of the window atlie distant Rabies of a hntisn In whichowf-lt Mary and her husband.Mary was not easily moved from herown Ideas. Tho scene was curious when:,he and Stratton were discovered by tin;injured Justin. She had 110 notion oflleelnK with her lover and abatldonlllBndvantiiRes that she fully appreciated."Why shouldn't I stay here'.' Whymust 1 choose between two men? Iwant neither of you, 1 want myself.I'm not a thliiR. I'm a human b.-lnR.I'm not your thliiR. Justin nor yours,.Stephen. Yet you want to iuarrel overm,..llSe two iIors over a bone. I amRoiiiR to stay here -In my house! It'sniv house. I made it. livery room ofIt Ik full of mo. lion- I am!" Stratumfei.'otds here: "Moth 1 und JustinHKil.o together and then turned in helphss anger upon one another. I rernem-b-fthat Willi the clumsiest of weaki-estiueH he bade tne lieRone from tholi'jtifcc, and that I with a now rather deflated rhetoric answered that I wouldru only with Mary ut my side. Andthere sho stood, lews llkn a desperaterebel HRalnsl the most fundamental social relations than an Indlfrnnnt princesji, nnd demanded, 'Why should I befought for? 'Why should I lie foimhtfort'" Btlll the conventions wrttioUilnsr, anil at time? I have lin-h temptedto feel, mre Irs. It Iiaw sunK'tlmi". liow-1ever, fortunately liripprneil that theltlM'Islilo 1'ic.iii li.m broil nlile to ItidlllKe ,ltolf without cniititlm: tlie eot In the .timkltm of certiiln liool. lllimtratlin typoi; jniphy at Kh In wt i:amnlt.t of thlitypo of work In what liavo been Know 11as the Special Itlverslile Trens lMltlotiM,oarrlnl out at Itlvernlde miller tho Kiild-111100 of Mr. llruoo llocers, wo like to think ,Bii'iv naturally and inphlly Into tho pubUshliiR tkM. fioin small liiKlunliiRs Itcame Into the pulilidiltiR IicI'Iimko of TleUnor & Klilds, under whoso ltnrlrtt theKreat and nbldlnir names In American Jit -fratine l.oiiKfellow, llmei.on, Hawthorne, Lowell. Holmes. Whlttler. Thoroan. .Mdrlch. ltrrt Harte, Ac took formIn their complete wrllliiKs. The tasksince that time' has bteti to build 011 thesesine foundations mid to multiply thefoi ins mid Uses to which these wrltliiKsmid later ones iciutd lie put This hasbeen done thiouith the aitoncy of soicraldepartni' nts, Kiuoral, dinatlonal andsuhscrltitlou. in each one nf whleli tlioL'OVelllitlir conditions hao been llllrfllll.Vsliiilled and met as far as was practicablefioin time to time; with what stucss ItIs not for lis to say. our catalogue, theloots of which extend bacTi to 1SSJ. coll-talnlliK those books which hae oidilied,could tell of Ioiik and arduous ipiests forwhat seemed bet at the time. In later'Uears, in the multiplication "f now booksand new methods, the limine has been 1trltiR with the help of many youni audi1 enthusiastic mimhets to maintain .no,statidalds raised b; Mr HoUKhtoii. WUhthe hti-t of Intentions It li.is made and Nmal.lm; inlsl.il.it enoiiKh, but they havebeen tho.-e of JllllKllleut and pot llltelltlouIt lealUis to-d.o. 111010 than It -lev hasbrfme. that Its best asset Is th. Rood willof lis filciids and authois. It Is catl-tlclif after earnest elToils It can add a fewbooks from .vear to -.car to Its cataloKiieof peiinanenl stall laid uiuU. Hut It Is1omy after lepeated txpeilnients that tlnnsettles wiiat Is n-ally permanent lliichslieh addition to Its c.ltllloRUe lej.lle.s the' lioal t of eerj R.-ntiltio publisher and Iswhat ue ale all ItaeliliiR utter, erhapstremendous. They stood like a wall, astlie story rocs 011 most IntcrostliiRly toshow.The trouble oxer Mary was not conducted at all n It Is in some romance..Mary's brothers wore Inclined to ho alittle InillRiiant, but In Rtcat pan thediscussions were kept well withinbounds. They may be called temperate.Tarvllle was as cool as a cucumber. Helooked at the matter sncioloRlcallyown patriotically. "You sec. Stratum,"said Tarvllle, "there's been too man) dloties In society. It's ileiuorallzliiRpeople. It's il.scrcilltlnR ll. It's sittitiK class iiRalnst class I3er body issaying why don't these blR peop'o eitherset about re.spectins the law or allorltiRit. I'litumon peoplo are ttettiim too infernally clear headed. Hitherto It's mattered so little. Hut we can't stand anymole of It, Strattun, now. It's souie-thitiR more than a private Issue, it s aiiie.Uou of piibllu pollcj. Wo can'tstand any more divorces." Tarvlllereally had a romantic soul, he wouldhave liked to see the lovers run olT toRcther and Ret mnrrlid as .soon as possible. Ullt he I.e. lie. I at this tlllllRiantely. We know also that while hewas dlscussitiR It he never turned ahair. v1 The question whether Strattou, after'.Instill had carried his wife off to an isolated part of lieland, could Ret Maryback on a writ of habeas corpus Is con'sldeird at pnKo 1 7 1. Wo tlud the lirv-yer who was consulted by Strattun say' Iiir there: "It's unusual. You will bo.....ulriim tlio husband to produce her' .n,ll3, don't think, speaklnB In the.,,,. general terms as those In whichviU thp t.rt.umstlint.,.!,i u W0Ua ll0..,,.,. , , ..... Tllo ,H.vv..r-slinke dellberntely nnn Impartially. IIwas a thoiiKhtful opinion.1 Olioai'l'.. rjiio.i.rn .0 ntAouei in,.lUiouuu uio voi 111 visiieu iinmi ami ,owYork. It Is aRrerablo to road what Icame under Ills own observation or inStratton thought of New York. Hn (which ho took part; he keeps himselfwrote: "The onset of New York was M, much In the background that it isextraordinarily stimulating to me. I often hard to tell whether the advenwrlto onset, It Is Indeed that. New ! turo Is experience or hearsay. It IsYork tides up out of the waters, a cliffI of man's making: its great buildings at,a distance seem like Ioiir Chinese ban-ners held up against the sky. l'rom1 Sandy Hook to tho Rreat landing stagesand the swirling hooting traffic ot theHudson Klver there falls nothing Inthat magnificent crescendo of approach.And New York keeps the promise ofIts llrst appearance. There Is no suchfulness of life elsewhere In all the world.The common man In the streets Is abigger common man than any Old Worldcity can show, physically bigger; thereIs hope In his eyes and a braced dellance." Certainly the skyscrapers havemadn a change. Cooper In one of hisnovels remarked that tho river andSound steamhontH dwarfed tho landscape. CRITICAL REVIEWSOF THE SEASON'SLATEST BOOKSCoiiflnurr! from Eighth Pilar.on which all Shakespearian controversies nrn kised. Tho authors do notdlsgulso their own opinions, hut theysummarize those that differ from theirsfairly. They flout the Haconl.ms rather , Mtoy miso" (Kdward Arnold: Longscornfully. hut peoplo who am not In- ,, oieen and Company) Harryfooted by the Hacon germ will hardly I tiiahum has fortunately abandoned thnobject to that. blnodthlrstlness of his nursery rhymes.Into whatever controversy any of tho is funny In dealing with questionsAdams brothers enters ho Is sure to f the moment uml with the weather,be bright and to express his opinions I ami. we assume, Is equally funny In hisso that they cannot bo mistaken, and hit! at London clubs. He retains Illsthe rulo holds good with Ilrooks Adams eMraordlnary mastery of rhythm, ThoIn "Tho Theory of Social Revolution" I pictures by Lewis Haumer are appro(Maemlllans), The series of papers was prlale and very good.Inspired apparently by Mr, lloosevelt's Within II h restricted limits the seleeattack on thn court". In two of them Hon made by Mdllh 11. Ordway In "TheMr. Adams studies tho great popular . Handbook of Quotations" (Sully andA Companion Volume to HEARTS AND MASKS, byAuthor ofThe Man on the Box, The Goose Girl, etc.The most whimsical, the most brilliantly executed adventure itory you have read in a decade.There Is a popular artist who yearns to be adetective.There it a young millionaire archseologist whocollects mummies and cracks safes for a pastime.There ii a young woman who, in obedience tothe terms of a strange will, lives in an apartmentfilled with curios amounting to millions.AffAfb Uluttniti In fiM colon h R. M. Cmby.INDIANAPOLISHOW DICKY THE ARTISTK Temple Thurston's story of"Klclmrd Kurloni?" tU. Appleton amiCompany) tells of the difficult career ofa yuunir artist who patntcil ImaKlnatlvely.lilchard painted mcatiiiiRs. What wasmerely obvious lie left to the photonra-jihcts-left It to them scornfully urn!with I1e.1t am! bitterness of expressedopinion, even when it was necessary to 1sell a picture In order to Ret breakfast.Mrs. Nlbbs, the print seller's wife, looked 1blankly at Klchard's picture of Westminster HiidRe, althoURh she was per- !fectly familiar with that ImposlnR struc- ;turo. "What Is it?" she Inquired a II truly polRnnnt failure of appreciation, jI Mr. Nlbbs was somewhut more capa1 lile. lly cockltiR his head on one sideland starltiR hard at tho picture ho was 1: able to think dimly that "you mlitht see '1 Westminster HtidRo In such 11 way If Iyou had the mind for It." Of course IDicky (ho Is so called In the story) had 1, painted the "soul or the brlilRo. notj the morn base materials. SlmllurlyI with his watercolor of a wiiRonload of(flowers In Lontf Acre hLs title for Itwas "Kniurance." und he had paintedfraRranco. At this day there Is no ob, vlous triuble In spreading new Ideas,but Dicky had to make his wny In aI time of conservatism. While he wasI palntlnR nieaidiiRs and odors the public was buylnR Thomas Parker's pictures of Venice. I'arker had never been1 in Venice, but he could paint It so as 1upheavals In hist my as t hunch theywere natural idle nomeim and siirr.sIssumethlnR like natural laws for theirworkiiiR. but the matter that reallyburdens his mind and to which he devotes all the other papers Is the wiourdoitiR and the failures of the courts oflaw, and particularly tho Supremet'ouit of the t'nlted States. In hiscataloKiie of the instances where thecmiit went wronR there are several,such as the Dred Scott decision, aboutwhich the layman may aRree with Mr.Adams, there are othets where theJiidRinetit will di pond on the reader'sprejudices, but the iircunients Mr..mums manes uKitmsi me couiis are lor every one who has to do wi'h cotsuch ns men of IntelllRonce can weiRh .tun and Is useful n many a .,.M.and reaard. 1 interested In public affairs. CottonAs Interesting a true story of nd-'venture as tins been told by the man 'himself will be found In the plain 'statements made by William ( 'Rllvle In'T.'itiy Jhiys on the Yukon"' i.lohuil.ane Company). The author helped tomark out the bouuilaiy betwieti tipI'nlted States and Canada In ISs, hewas tho first Rovernor of tho territory,and in later years was Commissioner1 lie explored the country as a survejorand, as an ulliclal, looked on the gold1 rush when It came. Ho IiorIiis with.1 historical sketch of exploration uml'settlement in Alaska ami the Canadiannorth, and then describes things thatwith the eye of an administrator aswell as an explorer that ho regards theprovince, but ho keeps breaking out uti-expecleilly with capital stories of tho'strange people ho camo across.The compiler of "Little Stories by HigMen" it!, 1'. I'utnam's Sons). Annabel1 Lee, has sought material from most of1 the men in public life with rather aridI results. She has arranged them ac-cording to ollico, beginning with Presl! dent, Cabinet otllcers, Senators, meiii1 hers of Congress, and working down toCovornors, army and navy men,1 authors and others. It Is surprising1 that from the hundred or more American speakers so few good stories wereobtained; perhaps a dozen In nil areI worthy of repetition. The book Is acuriosity, but othorSviso rtf no greatJ interest.I'or the v.'iluablo scries of "OriginalI Narratives of Karly American History,"1 edited by Dr. .1. Franklin Jnmcs.nu, nowof tint Carnegiu Institute, Dr. Charles j. II. Lincoln has prepnred and edited a1 volume, of "Narratives of the IndianWars, Ifi'.'i-ltl'Jli" (Charles Scrlbner'sSons). Tho repiintH treat exclusivelyof the troubles In New Knglnnd, thefirst being John Huston's "llelaclon,"I the last t'otton Mather's "Decennium. Liictuosum," Dr. Lincoln's introductions tire clear nnd helpful.In tho humorous verse of "TheThere's another young woman, the innocentcause of all the trouble.And there is Mr. Haggerty, a real detective,that and no morei no biologist, chemist extraordinary', just human.Not to mention the archaeologist's valet.And six pairs of old shoes.Cloth, itcotaiti jack. Al all Booktttttn. St. 00 Ml1 THE BOBB3-MERRILL COMPANY :S--T VV T TV T T TrVV TGOT ON IN LONDONto suit purchasers.DteUv had to ovcr-i'onip I'arker.He Hlso hail to tlRht for truth. Sup-pose that two lovers are walking underan umbrella in a sjreet enveloped Infop and closely overhiini; with the IfolliiRn of trees. Suppose It la ralnlntand that nluht lias fal.en and the street 'lamps have not vet been liRhted surelIt Is extletnely iiobuble that 111 -11. !.circumstances the lovers could not bseen at all that they wnu.d be fairly'Invisible. III. ky's truthful utnlerstatul-itiK was hound to tell him as much, and 1It Is easy to see why In his maRiizlne.llustr.itlon, "livers'ln Had Weatliet"if that was the title- much shouldhave been left to be mfi rred. The c ntentlon of the editor that tho loversshould have been made apparent to thematerial eye, thai l.k should have. aused them to ! seen, was unreasonable, Tho Illustration was truth, thoiiirhit may have very stronuly lesenibled apatch of Krchiis, and iniu'hi If It hadbeen used have been mistaken for anaccidental dNohnritu of printer's Ink mithe maRa.iue paRc.When it came to love Dicky wasRtilded by his eye for form and colorand his desire for affect;. mule syinpath.He did not require the nlceii manifestations of the Intellect In his fair amifaithful companion. Th" stmy ..f l.lsbattles in art and his e.xpeitence in low.s vlRormisiv told and very readableKlelnteleh, New York) ! Rood Modernquotations are comparatively scarce,probable In order to avoid trouble aboutcopjriRlu. and manv of the .... r onesare by no means "familiar." They areartaiiRed accordltiR to subjicts. with aninde of authors at the end.Many scraps of information. Rom-rallyof Interest In some way or other, arecontained In "l.ofiu ThineWorth 1KnowniR," bv Nathaniel O I'owlei .lr'Sull and Klelnteti h). 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